Authoring training courses
Training courses are the learning surface your employees acknowledge lesson by lesson. You author them from Courses in the admin dashboard.
Lessons: a body or a reference
Each lesson is either:
- With its own body: you write its text in the course box itself. Write it plainly, like any message you type; and if you want formatting, a few simple marks are understood automatically: a line starting with
##becomes a heading, a line starting with-becomes a list item, and**word**shows in bold. (This light convention is called Markdown, in case you meet the name later — you needn't memorize it; plain text is shown as-is.) or - By reference: it points to a published public lesson from the academy — whose content is shown without copying. Edit the public lesson once, and it reflects in every course that references it. (A reference to an unpublished lesson silently drops.)
Assignment: by title or to everyone
Assign the course either by job title (so it appears for every employee with that title, and their duty changes the moment their title does) or to everyone. The assignment is yours (the tenant), even for shared platform courses.
Links that multiply the value
- Link it to a competency: completing it generates a qualification in the competence matrix (as 'unverified' — see Competence & effectiveness).
- Link it to an evacuation plan: the course shows a live block of the evacuation routes and assembly points, read from the actual plan at display time.
Publishing
Publishing stamps its date once; before publishing the course is invisible to learners. After publishing it appears in My courses for everyone assigned, where they read and acknowledge it lesson by lesson.
A note on acknowledgment: acknowledgment is the person's own act alone — no one acknowledges for anyone else, and the resulting certificate attests attendance, not competence.